Still No Hope for Life on Venus
There have been numerous speculations and interesting fantasy stories about Amtor — I mean, Venus — for a very long time. It was often envisioned by writers as having great forests, interesting creatures, and often with people similar to humans.
Space probes showed that Venus is not hospitable for life, but some of Darwin's cheerleaders thought that smelly molecules detected in its atmosphere indicated life of some weird form, but that idea crashed. Mayhaps their hopes are finally dashed with new studies.
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The habitability of “Earth’s evil twin” has long revolved around the question of whether Venus ever had water. Because of their thinking based on hydrobioscopy, secular scientists had hoped that Perelandra was a lush land of tropical forests and maybe even dinosaurs. That was until December 1962, when Mariner 2 and subsequent landers discovered Venus to be a hothouse from hell, with temperatures of up to 900 degrees Fahrenheit on the surface under a crushing poisonous atmosphere.Still hoping against hope, hydrobioscopists had theorized that Venus might have been habitable in its geologic past. Those hopes were sunk further in a new paper published 13 Oct 2021 in Nature by Turbet et al., “Day–night cloud asymmetry prevents early oceans on Venus but not on Earth.”
To read the rest of this hot article, see "Venus Was Never Habitable." Other information related to that article is found at "Surprised by Venus Volcanoes."